I guarantee the whole art team facepalmed after Swen Vincke said this, you can't put those words back in the bottle and what it implicates. AI Concept art mentioned like the work is throwaway and isn't important to the process.

People don't understand, I've wasted years of my career searching Google for the perfect images to assemble my mood boards, now instead of using Google to find an overwhelming amount of AI images, I can just generate them and get exactly what I don't want quicker.

Going to have to point at the sign again Machine learning is not the kind of AI artists are annoyed about. Generative AI is. By this silly analogy, any game that shipped with DLSS *uses* AI

Wanting to own a high spec pair of night vision green/white phosphor goggles to go for walks in the forest at night is a normal thing in your 30s

Gathering reference images, trying some focus bracketing on the A7 iii

I have to disagree here, having worked on a lot of games that never nailed the mechanics at greybox well before the art, they became cancelled projects. Yes, sure some games rely heavily on the art lifting the experience, but if the gameplay isn't fun at it's MVP it won't work.

Should your metalness have only black (0) and white (1) values, or are there gray areas? Let's get into it → 🧵

Ok I've conceded, I'm giving up being a trained artist and I'm going to vibe code and vibe prompt my way to success, I'll spend the rest of the year being an AI advocate. Here's my first AI artwork of the year.

Ok 2026, back to normal art.

Run-away, that's what I want to do hearing that.

Started 2026 by watching A Silent Voice & Look Back Silent voice A Thoughtful look at overcoming self guilt and learning to trust others all while still touching on dark subjects. Look Back Kiyotaka absolutely destroying my Psyche with this one, dark, inspirational, heartbreaking

Lol

Every time it's a new moon and the stars are out, I swear the clouds just have to roll on through

Everyone's going LOVE the next 10 years of remasters, sequels and no innovation within the game dev sphere, that's all I'll say.